Without transparency, the community runs the significant risk of forming cliques, where local groups have a specific way of thinking or doing business and find it hard to imagine a Universe outside their own environment. Cliques are efficient for specific goals; however, they do not scale, and their effectiveness diminishes as the number of things to do increases. In practice, the transparent democratic dissemination of information is vital for the community's productivity. This section explores the issue.
The Foundation sits like a spider in the community web of interaction. The Foundation publishes events in its twice-a-month newsletter and arranges the international conference. The conferences were originally held twice a year in America and are now settling to once a year in different countries, with more specific regional conferences. Previous locations include Amsterdam, Paris, New Orleans, Austin, Texas, Vancouver, Boston, and Denver and the conference...